Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-07-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:51:13PM -0700 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: I've always used: find . -depth |cpio -pdlmv $dest While we're in workarounds, I fake with: % cat ~/bin/tarcp.sh #!/bin/sh cmd1=tar -cf - -C $1 . cmd2=tar -xvpf - -C $2 echo $cmd1 | $cmd2

Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0400 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:58, Mike Meyer wrote: Right. I typically install / and /usr as distinct files systems for just that reason (/ and /usr have different backup recovery strategies

Re: top delay value

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:42:26PM +0100 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: Bottom line: Disabling zero-delay in top doesn't buy you anything at all. Meanwhile, you still can't zero-delay unless you're root. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:49:02AM +0100 I heard the voice of Soeren Straarup, and lo! it spake thus: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:45:30PM -, Derekj Tourneo wrote: now edit the master password file vi /mnt/etc/master.passwd Try: vipw -d /mnt/etc It automaticly updates the right

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2007-03-30 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:16:37AM +0200 I heard the voice of MOUILLE Jean Pierre Ext OF/DT, and lo! it spake thus: . 1 RAID 5 for data on nForce chip, with 3 maxtor/seagate 250 GB disks (~450 GB data) ataraid(4): CAVEATS RAID5 is not supported at this time. Code exists, but it neither

Re: System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:20:09AM +0200 I heard the voice of Dag-Erling Smørgrav, and lo! it spake thus: David Cramblett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's in your /boot.config and /boot/loader.conf? I have no boot.config. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: boot loader

2007-10-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:47:04PM -0700 I heard the voice of Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus: You could theoretically install onto a local system, tar it up, then unpack it in the unused partition on your remote machine, yes. However in order to set the new slice bootable you'd have to

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:06PM +1000, a little birdie told me that Stephen McKay remarked I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:25:16PM -0500, a little birdie told me that David Scheidt remarked On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition? Because only meta-data writes are done synchronously. Data is still done

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:51:38AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matthew Dillon remarked I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end: "There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those things can

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:13:52AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Mike Smith remarked I think that the administrator should be forced to override the warning manually to indicate that they are aware of the issues they are getting themselves in for, or at the very least that there

Re: async v. sync v. default mode on ufs

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 02:15:15PM +0900, a little birdie told me that Daniel C. Sobral remarked Larry Lile wrote: /dev/wd0s1f on /var (asynchronous, local, noatime, synchronous, writes: sync 93 async 216) procfs on /proc (local) /var looks questionable... Indeed. :-) I'm still

Re: async v. sync v. default mode on ufs

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:40:43PM -0700, a little birdie told me that Julian Elischer remarked That one looks like a bug, either in reporting them or in doing them.. /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 34 async 954) what version are you running? FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #1: Mon

Re: Async NFS exports?

1999-08-20 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Caveat: I'm making this up as I go along ] On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:13:06PM -0500, a little birdie told me that Steve Ames remarked I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? Would my soul be

Re: arch@freebsd.org

1999-10-07 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:40:04PM +0900, a little birdie told me that Daniel C. Sobral remarked Some people tried starting two different threads in that list. We failed in both cases. Though we don't know yet, I suspect it is simply a case of lack of subscribers. Hmmm... I WAS subscribed,

Re: aio_read kills machine

1999-10-11 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:04:50AM +0930, a little birdie told me that Greg Lehey remarked What mailer are you using? It didn't quote the "From " at the beginning of the message, so David's message appeared as a separate message. If you're looking for it, sort your messages in mailbox

Re: Bad memory suspected

2000-02-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 05:01:55PM -0600, a little birdie told me that Chris Dillon remarked The last time I had a problem like this, it was because I put a P54C (Pentium-MMX) into a board only designed for the P53C (a.k.a standard ITYM P55C on a P54C board. -- Matthew Fuller

Re: vm balance

2001-04-14 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:24:36PM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matt Dillon remarked Without vmiodirenable turned on, any directory exceeding vfs.maxmallocbufspace becomes extremely expensive to work with O(N * diskIO). With vmiodirenable turned on huge directories

Re: Config devices not in machine

2001-07-03 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:26:58PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Mike Smith remarked I'm new to FreeBSD (come from the *gasp* System V and RTU world) so I hope this is the correct list for this. ( I'm sure I will be told if it's not :-} ) Is there ANY penalty for having a device in

Bugfixes, security fixes, versions

2000-10-07 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
The whole "Stable Branch" thread on -security gave me an idea that's been perculating for some time. Problem: We have security problems in (say) -STABLE. They get fixed. We post an advisory about it, giving correction dates for -STABLE and -CURRENT, and the associated cutoff in which releases

Re: Editing /usr/include/*.h?

2004-05-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:13:04PM -0700 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: On Mon, 3 May 2004, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: I want to modify sys/param.h to increase the value of MAXLOGNAME. I know I've done exactly this.. edit /usr/src/sys/param.h There's

Re: Memory Leak

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:52:19AM -0700 I heard the voice of Tim Kientzle, and lo! it spake thus: The one problem I've had is that dmalloc.h redefines some standard functions, which can cause gcc to complain. I usually just have a flag in my Makefile to enable dmalloc (adding a -D to the cc

Re: smartmontools vs HP Smart Array 642 controller

2005-02-25 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:24:17PM -0600 I heard the voice of Chris Dillon, and lo! it spake thus: Your problem with smartmontools doesn't seem to be limited to the Smart Array 642, I just tried it on a DL380 G3 with the Smart Array 5i+ and got the same error you did. It appears to be a

CVSup and Attic files

2005-04-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
I've noticed some strange behavior suddenly out of CVSup. I refuse all Attic files in ports, and that doesn't seem to be working right all of a sudden. My best guess is that it's something due to the recent patch to cvsupd to handle INDEX issues, since I can't think of anything else that would

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-09-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
Oh god, as everybody else is saying, I can't believe I'm getting involved in this, but... On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:58:21AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Richard Hodges remarked Why not parse it literally? For instance, http://www.ufp.org would imply TCP, dest port 80, and host

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:26:22AM -0400 I heard the voice of Mike Barcroft, and lo! it spake thus: Just to clarify. This is still a POLA violation. If a log file is pulled out from underneath syslogd(8), one wouldn't expect it to start logging again, even if the file was re-created. Just

Re: Tell gcc I have a i686

2002-01-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:02:03PM -0600 I heard the voice of Stephen Montgomery-Smith, and lo! it spake thus: I want to create a Makefile for a C program that includes some Pentium II specific inline assembler code. How do I tell the compiler whether we are compiling on a i686? Dunno, how

Re: complicated downgrade

2003-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:34:28PM -0700 I heard the voice of Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus: Your biggest problems are going to be the creation of the /dev, which will need to occur in an rc.local on reboot, Mightn't you be able to get away with this by something like: - Downgrade / to

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:59:18AM +0100 I heard the voice of David Malone, and lo! it spake thus: A significant number of these are ad servers, so after complaining to Doubleclick and getting no response, I've told my local name server that it is authorititive for doubleclick.net and given

Re: Does indent(1) have a KNF mode?

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:25:39AM -0800 I heard the voice of Steve Kargl, and lo! it spake thus: Does indent(1) have a KNF mode? If not, does anyone have/know a set of command line switches that best approximates KNF? For the record, I tend to install GNU indent when I feel the itch, as it

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this CD format, please take in to account: And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even if we had

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:05:14AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: For 5.x we already have a 3rd floppy that is dedicated to modules. Unfortunately, it doesn't work nearly as well as it should because there is no way to activate it during the boot sequence; it

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:43:55AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: Well, regardless of how you label it, these floppies still require lots of care and feeding in order to work. We currently have no way to support multiple floppies in a convenient way. My hope

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:36:10AM -0800 I heard the voice of Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: If I understand you right.. A floppy boot, which loads the absolutely basic stuff (network drivers, and some easy way to config the network) and then goes and grabs the installer would otherwise

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:36:42PM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: Unfortunately, there are two problems with this. Now, The first is that it runs after the kernel has already booted, so SCSI devices that are handled by drivers on this floppy won't get probed.

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:50:59PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: I don't necessarily agree here - I think sysinstall is a better place because it's much much easier to write stuff for it than the loader. In the example you mention the only reason to use

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:48:55AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: Daniel O'Connor wrote: BTW Does camcontrol rescan cause the devices to be detected? Perhaps sysinstall could be enhanced to perform this duty as part of it's reprobe machinations. See my

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:23:58PM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: yes, we need something like struct pci_device_info { uint32_tpciid; charbrand[64]; charmodel[64]; }

Re: [call for helpers!] Tuning for the Beaver Challenge

2004-02-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:27:08PM +0100 I heard the voice of Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav, and lo! it spake thus: CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU is not likely to have any positive impact on performance, and fairly likely to render the system unbootable. I would guess just from the name that this (and some

Re: Odd ACL question

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:38:46AM +0100 I heard the voice of Harti Brandt, and lo! it spake thus: So if you restore a backup that is say, half a year old, you may well have files that belong to no known user, even if restoring to the same system. I suppose that mapping them to a well

Re: Adding 'realclean' target to /usr/src/Makefile

2004-02-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:20:56AM + I heard the voice of Bruce M Simpson, and lo! it spake thus: It would be helpful if it were pointed out in documentation somewhere that the path to the compile and source directories, when doing NFS kernel installs, has to be identical to those which

Mozilla sucking file descriptors

2004-03-14 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
Has anybody else seen Mozilla just start munching file descriptors the longer it runs? I've seen it with at least Phoen^WFirebird 0.6 and the current Firebi^WFirefox. It just keeps going 'till it maxes out the system. fstat(1) doesn't show much directly, but with -v it spits a crapload of

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-13 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 12:40:46PM +0400 I heard the voice of Denis Peplin, and lo! it spake thus: 2. Setup CVSup collection for subset of required files (is it possible?), and then keep this small collection up-to-date locally. src-etc cvs collection already here. One thing that I'm

Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-10 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:44:15PM -0700 I heard the voice of Mike Hunter, and lo! it spake thus: Is there a general-purpose approach to this kind of problem in the FBSD world? I can see myself writing a C program called `slow` that would take argv[1] as the factor ( 1) by which argv[2]

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:28:39PM +0100 I heard the voice of Robert Watson, and lo! it spake thus: - Pretty recent work to get read-only reiserfs working (committed and in the CVS repository). Which, by the way, I just used earlier this week to pull data and configs and such off an old and

Re: hosts.allow

2005-10-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:45:23PM -0400 I heard the voice of Chuck Robey, and lo! it spake thus: I'm not sure if it is, or is not, affecting my rpcbind. Someone else pointed out hosts_access(5). I just wanted to point out that unless you did something to it, it's probably not. The file is

Re: Re: system password's file

2005-10-14 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:54:26AM -0500 I heard the voice of Sergey Babkin, and lo! it spake thus: I don't know if it's fixed now or not. I just converted a Mandrake box a month or so ago, which used MD5 hashes. Worked flawlessly. Hm, considering the we'd like people to migrate from Linux

Re: nvi for serious hacking

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:03:25AM +0200 I heard the voice of Andreas Klemm, and lo! it spake thus: Most favourite example: I personally still get mad if it comes to the u undo key. I miss :N. You have to :split and then :n separately. Standard vi lets you toggle your last change by

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 01:18:03AM -0400 I heard the voice of Mikhail T., and lo! it spake thus: According to smartctl, the drive runs at 56C during the copying. Its idle temperature seems to be 54C. That sounds a little high to me. Smartctl has been weird lately, and it only shows temp on

Re: poor fdc(4) performance

2005-11-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:44:18PM +0900 I heard the voice of Pyun YongHyeon, and lo! it spake thus: Yes, it could be. But I think the machine is fast enough to read sequential blocks. Try running it without SMP. There may be enough happening in the MP locking bit that you end up falling

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-21 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200 I heard the voice of Juhana Tahvanainen, and lo! it spake thus: how about: FreeBSD-Handbook-General is rather fixed once ready, only maintenance needed is when some future release doesnt support something anymore, that is removed and moved to

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-25 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:46:15PM -0500 I heard the voice of Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: In fact, I'm pretty sure 4.11 can be installed with a USB keyboard. I may be imagining that though... Well, I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine installing 6.0 last month with a USB keyboard.

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 02:15:52PM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: The loader groks it just fine when you choose the 'boot with USB keyboard' boot menu option ;-) How can I choose a menu option in the loader when the keyboard doesn't work in the loader? :p

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:57:58AM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: Perhaps a BIOS option. I've never encountered a system with USB keyboard that did not work in the loader. The emulation or whatever it was was set in the BIOS. And it worked in the BIOS.

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:28:23AM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: Matthew D. Fuller wrote: The emulation or whatever it was was set in the BIOS. And it worked in the BIOS. Worked when the OS got up to sysinstall, too. Just wouldn't work for the loader

Re: increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate

2006-01-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:48:38AM +0100 I heard the voice of Christoph Kukulies, and lo! it spake thus: dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/ad3 conv=noerror Give it a bigger blocksize (say, bs=1m or so) and it'll go a **LOT** faster. My motherboard is an ASUS P4S8X with an on board promise controller

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-21 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Cc trim a bit ] On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:53:11PM -0500 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: In order to do better you either have to: This is something that may be easier to: 3) Implement in portupgrade or portmanager or some such higher-level tool in a language

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-21 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:23:21PM -0500 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:07:39AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: This is something that may be easier to: 3) Implement in portupgrade or portmanager or some such higher-level tool

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-21 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:09:56AM +1100 I heard the voice of Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus: Given that a port's dependency tree can depend on the options it is invoked with, it would be nicer if the dependency tree was generated dynamically, rather than pulled out of the latest INDEX

Re: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:33:37AM -0600 I heard the voice of Sergey Babkin, and lo! it spake thus: You can easily save the stream of updates as a redo log (well, that's the idea I've been running around with). Isn't that what the gjournal SoC thing was about? -- Matthew Fuller

Re: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:27:53PM -0400 I heard the voice of Lucas Holt, and lo! it spake thus: I worked with someone once that said they blew out the ps/2 port on the motherboard. I've seen this happen several times. Some boards were later revived by judicious use of a soldering iron, but

Re: 3.3 to 4.5 remote upgrade possible?

2002-03-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:03:47PM -0500 I heard the voice of Jim Durham, and lo! it spake thus: Is this Mission Impossible? I have no one at the site that can do this. If I say make installworld is the whole thing going to come to a grinding halt? When I did a 2.2.8-STABLE to 4.3-STABLE

[fullermd@over-yonder.net: Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5]

2002-03-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
Come to think of it, -hackers may be the more appropriate forum for RFC'ing on this... - Forwarded message from Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniel Sickels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Trim the CC's a bit ] On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:00:08PM -0800 I heard the voice of Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus: Kenneth Culver wrote: Other reasons I haven't even thought of yet 8-). Yeah, I was just wondering if there were issues making us keep a.out stuff in FreeBSD

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:53:16PM -0500 I heard the voice of Kenneth Culver, and lo! it spake thus: I didn't realize anyone still used netscape 4.x. It's so disgustingly unstable and slow. That it is. The problem, of course, is that all the alternatives are more unstable and slowER.

PR's in need of a home

2002-03-16 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
So, whose palm do I grease to get some PR's taken care of? ;-) - docs/31265 - Documentation (and adjustment) of cron allow/deny file formats Best (IMO, but then, I wrote it ;) patch at end of audit trail. - docs/35436 - Webpage update; don't push PAO Patch in PR -

Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5

2002-05-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:10:00PM -0400 I heard the voice of Matt Simerson, and lo! it spake thus: On 5/2/02 4:27 PM, Geoffrey C. Speicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: [in regard to multiple concurrent pw(8) processes hosing

Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5

2002-05-04 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0700 I heard the voice of Jeff Jirsa, and lo! it spake thus: Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but /var/run seems like the more logical answer. Read-only / filesystems would have a hard time creating temp lock files in /etc. If nothing else, make it

Locking the passwd subsystem (was Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch])

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
*/ Index: lib/libutil/pid_util.c === --- /dev/null Sun Jun 23 08:44:01 2002 +++ lib/libutil/pid_util.c Sun Jun 23 07:34:28 2002 @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +/*- + * Copyright (c) 2002 Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * All rights

Re: ppbus questions

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:15:01PM +0200 I heard the voice of Martin Faxer, and lo! it spake thus: i'm trying to write a driver for an old cd-rom drive that you connect to the parallel port. it is a shuttletech para drive 525. i don't have any driver docs or technical specifications but i

Re: Locking the passwd subsystem (was Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch])

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
/libutil/pid_util.c === --- /dev/null Sun Jun 23 11:44:00 2002 +++ lib/libutil/pid_util.c Sun Jun 23 11:50:59 2002 @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ +/*- + * Copyright (c) 2002 Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * All rights reserved

Re: Locking the passwd subsystem (was Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch])

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
And here's a run at Stage 2. This adapts a subset of programs to use the pid_*() locking supplied. The attached patch updates: pwd.h, libutil (libutil.h and pw_util.c), chpass (chpass.c), pw (pw.c), pwd_mkdb (Makefile, pwd_mkdb.8, pwd_mkdb.c), vipw (vipw.c). This does NOT include passwd(1),

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:32:54AM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: In fact, if you look at fileupdate(), you see that it already gains an exclusive lock on the temp file, but not the original /etc/master.passwd (if you will.) I think this is a bug, because

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:19:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: I think you might have your infp confused with your outfp. It's not writing to the original live file, it's just writing the new temp file. That part of the code is OK. I'm talking about down

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
OK, this is the end for me today. I'm fairly sure, somehow, it's time to get some sleep ;p On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:51:46PM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: Moral of that story: This would mean for pw(8) that I can't update the system passwords and the

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:14:58PM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: Clearly, at the root of our disagreement is what we both perceive the problem to be. Oh, certainly; that's what makes it fun :) I don't see problems in the current implementation, aside

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:07:40PM -0700 I heard the voice of Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus: The problem with your proposed patch is that it breaks the ability to allow authentication against the database while it is undergoing modification, which may be a prolonged period. Would it?

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:56:31AM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: So we either need to have a compelling solution or get a committer to step in and make up our minds for us. I think the best thing to do is

Re: How does swap work address spacewise?

2002-07-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:37:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of Darren Pilgrim, and lo! it spake thus: And you can have more than a single swap partition. Up to four, so then the theoretical limit for swap is 8TB? I hope not, since I have 6 of 'em. 4's just the default. Do these

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-12-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:02:33AM +0100 I heard the voice of Søren Schmidt, and lo! it spake thus: I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes the problem or not. Behind the curve, as usual, I just upgraded one of my systems that's had the problem in the past to

Re: Csup cvsmode build discussion

2008-01-16 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:32:14PM +0100 I heard the voice of Ulf Lilleengen, and lo! it spake thus: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:08:20AM +, Bob Bishop wrote: Why do you want prefixing? Prefixing is needed since csup already have a configuration parser written in lex/yacc and therefore

Re: distributed scm+freebsd svn?

2009-07-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 01:17:34PM +0300 I heard the voice of Andriy Gapon, and lo! it spake thus: P.S. I am looking for a distributed solution (mercurial, bazaar?) that won't take away what I have with git, but would correctly work with svn mergeinfo. I use bazaar, but I don't use the svn

Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

2009-08-27 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:40:09PM -0700 I heard the voice of Brian Somers, and lo! it spake thus: I think this is a shame as I find the pros more compelling than the cons, and I'm sure there are more than a few supporters out there on hackers@ that will stay silent. FWIW, I'm in favor of at

Re: /etc in CVS

2010-04-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:41:27PM +0200 I heard the voice of Ulrich Spörlein, and lo! it spake thus: I have a .hg directory sitting in / for every machine I usually take care of. hgignore is of course set to *, so only explicitly added files are tracked. I do pretty much the same thing

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:38:00PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Jim Carroll remarked I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, fsck chokes trying to alloc enough

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:06PM +1000, a little birdie told me that Stephen McKay remarked I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:25:16PM -0500, a little birdie told me that David Scheidt remarked On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition? Because only meta-data writes are done synchronously. Data is still done

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:51:38AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matthew Dillon remarked I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end: There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those things can easily

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:13:52AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Mike Smith remarked I think that the administrator should be forced to override the warning manually to indicate that they are aware of the issues they are getting themselves in for, or at the very least that there

Re: async v. sync v. default mode on ufs

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 02:15:15PM +0900, a little birdie told me that Daniel C. Sobral remarked Larry Lile wrote: /dev/wd0s1f on /var (asynchronous, local, noatime, synchronous, writes: sync 93 async 216) procfs on /proc (local) /var looks questionable... Indeed. :-) I'm still

Re: Async NFS exports?

1999-08-20 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Caveat: I'm making this up as I go along ] On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:13:06PM -0500, a little birdie told me that Steve Ames remarked I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? Would my soul be

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:39:54AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matthew Dillon remarked Though, as a side note, it should be noted that if you have DDB enabled then lowering the secure level is pretty easy to do. If you have access to the console, of course. We used this

Re: Phenom II 975 BE shows 0 celsius

2011-08-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 09:28:29PM -0300 I heard the voice of Mario Lobo, and lo! it spake thus: Unfortunately this Mobo died and only found AM3 boards for which my phenom 955 doesn't fit. Not that it helps you now, but the 955 _is_ perfectly compatible with AM3. It's only the initial 920

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:50:08PM -0600 I heard the voice of Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus: I've seen several other things hit -STABLE right after the freeze ended early January which surprise me that they weren't included in -RELEASE and we didn't have another RC. You mean the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:02:29PM + I heard the voice of Tom Evans, and lo! it spake thus: You say that snapshots of STABLE are stable and effectively a running release branch, so why can't more releases be made? Is the release process too complex for minor revisions, could that be

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:57:19PM + I heard the voice of Hugo Silva, and lo! it spake thus: Come to think about it, those days are pretty much gone since 4.x (incidentally, many of us who've stuck with FreeBSD for this long think of 4.x as an epic series). Having been a FreeBSD user for

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:41:53AM + I heard the voice of Igor Mozolevsky, and lo! it spake thus: The problem, however, lies in the time between a patch is submitted and is picked up, if the latter ever occurs!.. That is where the discouragement occurs. Quite. For instance, we're now

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:49:02PM -0800 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: 5 was not out on a limb for so long because it was a clusterfun, it was out there because it was a rework of how almost everything in the kernel worked. I'm not saying it was a cluster

Re: * Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:20:15PM -0800 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: the trouble with 5 was that it had to be all-or-nothing. [...] the size of the giant pile of stuff was not of our choosing. As may be, it's beside my point. Whether due to malice,

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:20:56PM -0600 I heard the voice of Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus: On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:46:45 -0600, John Kozubik j...@kozubik.com wrote: This is nice because no upheaval needs to happen with 7 and 8, and interested developers do not get kneecapped vis a vis 9

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